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C.60, C.61, and
C.62
THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF
CONTRA COSTA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA
Adopted this Order on January 23, 1996 , by the following vote:
AYES: Supervisors Rogers, Bishop, DeSaulnier, Torlakson and Smith
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
ABSTAIN: None
SUBJECT: Correspondence
C.60 LETTER dated December 21, 1995, from Margit Aramburu, Executive Director, Delta
Protection Commission, 14215 River Road, Walnut Grove, CA 95690, adopting Resolution
No. 95-9 by the State Delta Protection Commission approving the County's proposed
general plan amendments.
***REFERRED TO COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR
C.61 LETTER dated December 20, 1995, from Brad Luckey, Chairman, Imperial County Board of
Supervisors, endorsing and urging support of reforms that will provide fair distribution of
federal block grant monies.
'REFERRED*REFERRED TO HEALTH SERVICES DIRECTOR AND SOCIAL SERVICES
DIRECTOR
C.62 LETTER dated January 8, 1996, from Rory Robinson, Executive Director, Redevelopment
Agency of San Pablo, City of San Pablo, requesting the County officials charged with
allocating taxes prepare a report in the areas as referenced in the documents provided.
'REFERRED*REFERRED TO AUDITOR-CONTROLLER AND DEPUTY DIRECTOR,
REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY.
IT IS BY THE BOARD ORDERED that the above recommendations as noted 1****)
are approved.
I hereby certify that this is a true and correct copy of
an action taken and entered on the minutes of the
Board of superv��soqrrss on the date shown.
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ATTESTED: SXL24.,:--�
c.c. Community Development Director PHIL BA HELOR.CA rk of the Board
Health Services Director of Supervisors and County AdminWrator
Social Services Director a JJ44 Q.7 �p�I►
Auditor-Controller
Deputy Director, Redevelopment Agency 0
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JAN 1 11996
D►S'1'RI("1' S December '2 0 1995
SAM SHARP �
660 OLIVE AVE., 1101:1-VIII.E,CA 92250
CLERK BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
CONTRA COSTA CO.
Honorable Bill Clinton
President, United States of America
White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington, D.C. 20500
Dear President Clinton:
With the unanimous support of the Imperial County Board of
Supervisors, I am writing to urge your continued support of
constructive and equitable health and welfare reform. We urge your
careful consideration of the numerous proposals before you that may
appear politically agreeable but could have a devastating effect on
states and counties through inequitable -formulas for distributing
proposed federal block grant dollars. Inequitable distribution of
these limited dollars would not only put states and counties in
precarious budgetary positions it would, more importantly, provide
inequitable services to the needy.
As elected officials, we understand the need to control costs
in the health and welfare arena. However, we do not support
balancing the federal budget by simply passing on costs to state
and local government budgets. We all have an obligation to find
sensible solutions to some very complex problems and share in the
responsibility to ensure equity in the application of those
solutions.
Proposals currently ;-,aln g CorksiUered -v,,3u1u establish -fixed
dollar allotments for each state in federal budget year 1996 and
would establish maximum allowable growth percentages for each state
for years after 1996. Under the current proposals, California
would receive 14-19 billion dollar Medicaid reductions by the year
2002 . In Imperial County this equates to an 80-108 million dollar
potential loss in Federal Medicaid spending alone. We believe
health and welfare reforms must provide protection for the most
vulnerable populations--children, the indigent, the elderly and the
disabled. We also believe that reforms must maintain the federal-
state-local partnership. The state commitment must also be
maintained. We are very concerned that although under the current
block grant proposal attempts to equalize spending per beneficiary
by providing higher growth rates to historically low-spending
states and states with higher numbers of persons living in poverty,
it fails to fully do so. California ' s spending per beneficiary in
AN EQUAL OPPOR'T'UNI'T'Y/AFFIRMATIVE ACTION RMPLOYER
December 20, 1995
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1993 was $2, 801 compared to $7, 286 in New York, and a national
average of $3 , 870. Due to the fact that the proposal does not
adjust the baseline grants or provide significantly higher growth
for low-spending states, it alleviates only a small, portion of the
differences in spending by 2002 .
It is imperative that California' s legislative representatives
make every effort to insure an equitable formula is derived for
determining the share of limited federal block grant dollars.
California should- not be penalized for efficiencies that saved
federal dollars or penalized 'Lower federal dollar expenditures in
prior years.
California and, in particular Imperial County with its
location along the border with Mexico, will face a unique dilemma
with both legal and illegal immigrants. Due to a disproportionate
share of this population as compared with the rest of the country,
we are very concerned that local governments will not have the
resources to respond to the impact of this population on the
community as federal revenues are reduced.
With this population as well as others who no longer find
themselves eligible for categorical services, Imperial County, as
well as other counties in California could find Section 17000 of
California's Welfare & Institution code especially troubling. It
will be up to California to modify to reduce or restrict obligation
under this section so that local jurisdictions not be faced with
the responsibility to "relieve and support all incompetent, poor,
indigent persons, and those incapacitated by age, disease, or
accident, lawfully resident therein, when such persons are not
supported and relieved by their relatives or friends, by their own
means, or by state hospitals or other state or private
institutions. "
The Imperial County Board of Supervisors want to reiterate and
enthusiastically endorse reform that will provide fair distribution
of block grant dollars to the states while at the same time
providing a means for counties to insure equitable services to its
constituents.
Respectfully,
Brad Luckey, Chair n
Imperial County Board of Supervisors
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